According to the Institute of International Education, academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II, when thousands of professors and scientists escaped Nazi-controlled Europe.
News Archive
November 14, 2014
Attacks on pupils are inflicting dreadful damage on Nigeria's already precarious education systems.
November 12, 2014
Growing anger in Mexico over the disappearance and presumed deaths of 43 trainee teachers has highlighted the levels of violence affecting the country's schools.
November 12, 2014
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the suicide bomb attack on 10 November 2014 committed against the Government Science Technical School.
November 12, 2014
EI has roundly condemned the latest atrocities perpetrated against students and teachers by Islamist extremists in northern Nigeria.
November 12, 2014
A recent study, commissioned by Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict and written by CfBT Education Trust, quantifies the multiple impacts of conflict on education in terms of the number of out-of-school children and the financial costs to the sector.
November 12, 2014
The senior member of the Qatari royal family and education campaigner wants to galvanise the international community to provide education for 58 million children around the world without access to school.
November 11, 2014
The Global Partnership for Education works with GCPEA to support efforts around the world that prevent violent attacks on education and improve protection.
November 10, 2014
The Secretary-General is outraged by the frequency and brutality of attacks against educational institutions in the north of the country and reiterates his demand for an immediate cessation to these abominable crimes.
November 10, 2014
The Nigeria Police Force confirmed that the bomber was disguised as a student and said 47 people, most of them students, had been killed.
